Untitled, 2016
nickel, brass, adhesive tape
21 x 192 x 3 inches | 53.3 x 487.6 x 7.6 cm
image Courtesy Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York

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In his work, DANIEL TURNER – who was trained as a painter (btw: in 2006 he burnt all the paintings he had produced since 1997 in an action called ‘Burning an Entire Body of Work‘) – seems to disrupt art from its hierarchical and modernist structure thanks to a minimal and conceptual investigation of materials.

For this exhibition entitled 110/120, TURNER placed an ‘accumulation of polished, nickel-plated brass rods cast diagonally upon the floor’. Stacked upon each other, the rods at once appear precious, individually treated, but also very much discarded and disposed of in the context of an empty domestic room. This work as a whole, gives the impression of abandonment. Human presence is absent, yet man’s discarded wastes now mix with this vacant bourgeois space.

110/120 by DANIEL TURNER is on view at Franklin Parrasch Gallery in New York until May 14, 2016.

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